Sentences with phrase «path to college»

The practice, touted by educators nationwide as a proven path to college success, has largely been squeezed out by standardized tests, the quicker, less - costly measure of student performance.

Better schools, which will raise their aspirations and show them a clear path to college and / or an enticing career.

They try to navigate the complex and risky path to college, only to find themselves working low - wage service jobs in distant hope of paying off their debt.

This philosophy was at the forefront at the Breakthrough Collaborative, an organization that recruits high school and college students to work with high - potential, low - income middle school students to increase their school success and put them on paths to college.

Jon Marcus wrote about Match Beyond for EdNext last year in «A New Path to a College Degree: Match Beyond helps low - income students succeed.»

«Charter schools can not succeed without strong teachers and a seamless, affordable path to college for their graduates.»

We want outstanding local schools that truly prepare our children for success... and we want young New Yorkers to have an affordable path to a college education.

«A New Path to a College Degree,» an article by Jonathan Marcus in the Spring 2017 issue of Education Next, tells the story of Match Beyond.

Whether preparing for the rigor of new high - stakes assessments or building a cross-curricular path to college and career readiness, Achieve3000 has the solutions to help you achieve your goals.

As the Leader in Differentiated Instruction ®, Achieve3000 ® is committed to providing true equity of access for every student with a proven path to college and career readiness.

A handful of stats paint the picture behind coach John Beilein's path to college basketball's brightest stage.

Top seed Oregon State has a pretty clear path to the College World Series, but the annual tournament promises its usual chaos.

«For some people, [the] path to college is so easy that they can get out into life and they've never really been challenged,» he tells NPR's David Greene.

From Humble Beginnings Born in Manhattan's Chinatown to working - class immigrant parents, Louie's own path to college reflects public perceptions.

She recently completed a study of 68 second - generation Chinese Americans in the New York City area, looking at their various paths to college and the role their immigrant parents played in their development.

Carl Schurz High School is a neighborhood school located on the Northwest side of Chicago that offers many rigorous paths to college and career readiness.

The school is committed to putting every child on a clear path to college using proven techniques that include a longer school day, excellent teachers, free tutoring, a disciplined school culture that teaches self - respect, frequent communication with parents, an intense focus on literacy and math and enriching after school programs.

The Challenge Low income students are 30 % less likely to go to college.Unique Method We move students through the six - step Critical Path to college method and provide 1 - on - 1 mentoring to ensure success.

By empowering students to build literacy in the content areas — developing reading and writing skills while acquiring disciplinary knowledge and academic vocabulary — Achieve3000 ensures equity, giving all learners a cross-curricular path to college and career literacy.

We are excited to help yo on your path to college.

Tucker hopes to return home from the Central Valley then with a state title and a clear vision of the path to college competition.

Some parents see the sport as a path to a college scholarship; others fear that Gait's National Development Program will bring to youth lacrosse the travel - team lunacy of soccer and basketball.

The path to the College Football Playoff clearly runs through Auburn in what is essentially a playoff game in itself.

«With more NYC students taking the SAT than ever before, our efforts to eliminate any barriers on any child's path to college and careers are working,» de Blasio said.

For some of them, there is now one less barrier blocking the path to college.

The education programs that serve New York's prison population are streamlining the path to a college degree.

«While offering free college tuition to low - income families is laudable, the reality is that many students» paths to college are limited because their local K - 12 public schools lack the resources to support them,» said Jasmine Gripper, Legislative and Policy Director of the Alliance for Quality Education in a statement.

The application for the URI last year included a statement that the region will «invest in guaranteeing a path to college for students in its most distressed communities through the Say Yes to Education program.»

«Rather than clearing a path to new educational opportunities in deindustrializing areas, job destruction knocks many youth off the path to college,» the authors write.

Aivaaq is about to become a father for the first time while Qalli is on a path to college.

For years, Professor Bridget Terry Long has been fighting to help low - income families better navigate the path to college.

By putting low - income students of color on the path to college, charters are attacking the real civil rights problem of our day: negligent schooling that shatters the life prospects of our most vulnerable students.

Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College By Doug Lemov Jossey - Bass, 2010, $ 27.95; 352 pages.

But this sector's most significant accomplishment has been extricating disadvantaged children from bleak prospects in dire inner - city schools and placing them on the path to college and upward mobility.

Teens are well versed in social media, and now they are able to leverage a platform designed specifically for professional adults to grease the path to college acceptance.

«I was actually walking with another Harvard grad, Brian Osborne, and I was talking about the Seven Keys,» he says, referring to an approach that the county is known for, which uses data to highlight a path to college persistence.

[1] Rather, they miss a key deadline, or incorrectly fill out a form, or fail to take a required class, and thereby fall off the path to college.

These seemingly minor obstacles put many low - income students off the path to college.

History also teaches us that when we don't say «college for all,» those not put on a path to college tend, disproportionately, to be kids from lower - income and minority families.

The simple question we need to keep at the center of this issue is, are we counting every child and ensuring that he or she is on a path to college and career?

I had the opportunity recently to revisit Doug Lemov's book, Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College, which was published in 2010.

The potholes on the path to college my colleagues called them.

Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College By Doug Lemov Jossey - Bass, 2010, 352 pp.

For undocumented students, the path to college can be littered with unique obstacles, from limited financial resources to fear of disclosing status to a sense of hopelessness that can get in the way before they even apply.

Under Bob's leadership, Envision Education put in practice a highly successful redesign model that has opened a path to college and college retention for underserved urban students at Envision's three Bay Area arts and technology high schools.

After a decade of high school graduation rates that hovered around 55 percent, Washoe school leaders realized they needed to do something different to put their kids on the path to colleges and careers.

He applauds the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program for arming parents with choice, and allowing students to enroll in a program that graduates 26 % more DC students than traditional public schools and places 90 % of its graduates on the path to college.